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Archive of Previous Presentations

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CUSEC 2006 ~ Engineering Useful Software

Montreal, Quebec, Canada


Website | Proceedings | Pictures

Presentations

  • “Creating Passionate Users”
    • Kathy Sierra, Author and Publisher of O'Reilly's Head First series of books Audio
  • “Fight The Traffic”
    • Chad Fowler, Author of "My Job Went To India" and "Rails Recipes" PDF
  • “Modular Concurrency”
    • Peter Grogono, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University PDF | Audio
  • “Rails is Boring and Ruby is a Toy”
    • Chad Fowler, Author of "My Job Went To India" and "Rails Recipes" Audio
  • “Software Testing as a Social Science”
    • Cem Kaner, Professor of Software Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology PDF | Audio
  • “Agile - Helping You Deliver More Useful Software”
    • Francois Beauregard, VP Research and Development, Pyxis Technologies PDF
  • “Software Start Up”
  • “The Challenge of Testing In A Creative Environment”
    • Karine Roy, SQA Manager, Autodesk Media and Entertainment Word | PDF
  • “Eclipse Performance”
    • Chris Laffra, Rational Performance Engineering Team, IBM PDF | PPT
  • “Considering AJAX”
    • Chris Laffra, Rational Performance Engineering Team, IBM Web Slides | Audio

Organizers of Event

  • John Kopanas Chair
  • Mark Pavlidis Director of Finance
  • Ahmed Kamel Director of Keynote, Corporate and Tutorial Presentations
  • Ashraf Gaffar Director of Academic and Paper Presentations
  • Neeraj Mathrani Director of Corporate Sponsorship
  • Nadia Chaouch Director of Logistics and Website
  • Michel Parisien Director of Promotions

CUSEC 2005 ~ Thinking Outside the Cubicle

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


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Presentations

  • “Can the Means Justify the End? - Saving Programs from Programming”
    • Branislav Selic, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Rational Software Canada PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Software Development as a Cooperative Game of Invention and Communication”
  • “Engineering High Quality Software Applications”
    • Dr. Alan Wassyng, Associate Professor, McMaster University PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Is Emotion Relevant to Requirements Engineering”
    • Dr. Daniel M. Berry, Professor, University of Waterloo PDF
  • “Multidisciplinary Participatory Design Environment”
    • Jonathan Benn, B.Eng., Graduate Student, Concordia University PowerPoint | PDF
  • “MDA: What is in it for Patterns”
    • Ashraf Gaffar, Graduate Student, Concordia University PDF
  • “Using CVS to Manage Student Assignments”
    • Dr. Greg Wilson, Adjunct Professor and Karen Reid, Lecturer,University of Toronto PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Subversion”
    • Chris Ness, Undergraduate Student, McMaster University PDF
  • “A Real-World Development Life Cycle”
    • Dr. Greg Wilson, Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto PowerPoint | PDF
  • “How to develop software? Don't - most of it is out there, adapt it.”

Organizers of Event

  • Chris Donaldson Director of Physical Things
  • Karen Widish Director of Other Physical Things
  • Michael Smith Director of Audible Things
  • Matt Gawlik Director of Common Sense
  • Andrew Dunbar Director of Safety and Fun
  • Sherwin Sim Director of Seating
  • Wataru Watanabe Graphic Design

CUSEC 2004 ~ Ensuring the Quality

Montreal, Quebec, Canada


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Organizers of Event

  • Joël Migneault Chair
  • Gregory Sagget-Rudd VP Presentations
  • Alexandre Lampron VP Communication & Finance
  • Madhumita Banerjee VP Finance
  • Vincent Dionne VP Logistics
  • Ahmed Kamel VP Technology & Presentations
  • Nadia Chaouch Logistic & Presentations & Executive Assistant
  • Leon McKernan-Milon Finance
  • Pier-Luc St-Onge Communication
  • Dominic Lagarde Communication
  • Maxime Clerk-Lamalice Communication
  • Audrey Girouard Logistics
  • Sandrine Tiné Logistics
  • Fanny Waffo Logistics
  • Ndeye-Syra Ba Logistics
  • Ka Lun Sze Competition
  • Frédéric Rioux Central Committee

CUSEC 2003 ~ Adapting The Process

Montreal, Quebec, Canada


Presentations

  • “Les Principes Fondamentaux du Génie Logiciel”
    • Normand Séguin, Professor, Computer Science Department, UQAM PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Accreditation of Software Engineering Programs by the CSAC”
    • Guy Tremblay, UQAM & Member of CSAC PDF
  • “Atelier: Les Inspections Logicielles”
  • “Testing Interactions Among Software Components”
    • Alan Williams, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa PowerPoint | PDF

Organizers of Event

  • John Kopanas Chair
  • Frédéric Rioux Director of Presentations
  • Chae Dickie-Clark Director of Finance
  • Jacinthe Gagnon Director of Operations
  • Thanh Vinh Tang Director of Industry Relations
  • Yann McCready Director of Inter-University Promotions
  • Jia-Wei Zhang Director of Inter-University Promotions
  • Mark Abbyad Director of Activities and Kangaroos
  • Francois-Michel Brière Director of Exhibitions
  • Gaspard Petit Director of Software Engineering Competition
  • Marc-André Laverdière Director of Software Engineering Competition

CUSEC 2002

Montreal, Quebec, Canada


Presentations

  • “Defining the Software Engineering Profession: Challenges Ahead”
    • Timothy Lethbridge, Professor, University of Ottawa PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Software Engineering is Multi-Disciplinary: Impact on Design for Change”
    • Morven Gentleman, Head, NRC Software Engineering Group PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Changing Software Engineering”
    • Peter Grogono, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Human Centered Software Engineering: Designing For And With Humans”
    • Ahmed Seffah, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University PowerPoint | PDF
  • “A Human-Centric Framework For Universal Access”
  • “Software Engineering: Develop Software Precisely and Efficiently”
    • Michel Daigle, Development Manager, Forensic Technology Inc. PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Usability Pattern Oriented Design: Maximizing Reusability of Pattern Languages Over The Web”
    • Homa Javahery, Human-Centered Software Engineering Group, Concordia University PowerPoint | PDF
  • “Software Engineering Best Practices: Practical Things We Can All Do”
  • “Software Engineering and the Small Business”
  • “Inspections: A Flexible Method to Increase Software Quality”

Organizers of Event

  • John Kopanas
  • Chae Dickie-Clark
  • Madeline Taing
  • Marc Abbyad
  • Chadi Freiha
  • Jason Essebag
  • Jacinthe Gagnon